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For a variety of its own reasons not applicable to the Committee, the agency may implement all/most of the recommendations,
but few times recommendations are not implemented.
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The Board’s recommendations regarding the Director’s priorities for IES were fully implemented. Similarly the Board’s recommendations
regarding the Procedures for Peer Review of Grant Applications were fully implemented. Among the 12 resolutions passed by
the Board since its establishment, the March 2011 recommendation regarding the Regional Educational Laboratories was mostly
implemented by Congress. Of the earlier resolutions:• Resolution 3 from September 2006, which recommended that Congress designate
IES in statute as the lead agency for all congressionally authorized evaluations of US Department of Education programs, is
currently reflected in draft Senate language for the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).•
Resolution 5, also from September 2006, called on the Department of Education to use its waiver authority to build scientifically
valid knowledge about what works in K-12 education. The Department’s September 2011 ESEA waiver document provides language
encouraging state education agencies to work with the Department to evaluate some of their reform initiatives under the waivers.•
Resolution 6 from May 2007 recommends the adoption of incentives for federal education program grantees to adopt practices
that meet the highest standard of evidence of sizeable, sustained effects on important educational outcomes. The Department
of Education’s Investing in Innovation (i3) program, launched in 2009, provides tiered funding for grantees based on the level
of evidence supporting the practice in question.• Resolution 7 from October 2007 recommends that Congress revise its statutory
definition of “scientifically based research”. Draft Senate language for ESEA reauthorization largely replaces “scientifically
based research” with “evidence based” and “scientifically valid research”.• The Board’s January 2008 resolution, which requires
Board review of grant awards where the proposed grantee is selected out of rank order of the proposal’s peer review score,
has become part of IES’s policy.
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